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" The most important thing for poets to do is to write as little as possible. "

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" There is no method but to be very intelligent. "

" Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to prevent it from changing too rapidly. "

" Business today consists in persuading crowds. "

" It's not wise to violate rules until you know how to observe them. "

" For love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting. "

" Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers. "

" The tiger springs in the new year. Us he devours. "

" I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope, For hope would be hope for the wrong thing. "

" Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this we know. "

" Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate; for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves. "

" The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first. "

" If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are? "

" The soul is so far from being a monad that we have not only to interpret other souls to ourself but to interpret ourself to ourself. "

" Any poet, if he is to survive beyond his 25th year, must alter; he must seek new literary influences; he will have different emotions to express. "

" The Nobel is a ticket to one's own funeral. No one has ever done anything after he got it. "

" My greatest trouble is getting the curtain up and down. "

" What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from. "

" Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature. "

" People to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events. "

" Home is where one starts from. "

" I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates. "

" It's strange that words are so inadequate. Yet, like the asthmatic struggling for breath, so the lover must struggle for words. "

" Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. "

" O Lord, deliver me from the man of excellent intention and impure heart: for the heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked. "

" I have measured out my life with coffee spoons. "

" Playwriting gets into your blood and you can't stop it. At least not until the producers or the public tell you to. "